Tilai (The Law)

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The unbending nature of village law wreaks havoc upon an all-too human family in this unusual film from the tiny nation of Burkina Faso. In the story, a young man has fallen in love with and become affianced to a young woman, which is not too strange. But then his father swiftly exercises his customary parental prerogatives, and marries the girl instead. Now the boy's fiancee has officially become his mother, and his father's second wife. The distraught lovers run away together, but are actively sought by the otherwise easygoing village authorities for having (technically) committed the crime of incest. When the man's other son pretends to have carried out the father's decree that the boy be killed for having disgraced the family name, he, too, suffers. Finally, the father suffers from his bewilderment at how his being so clearly in the right can cause such disasters. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Drama
Directed By:

Idrissa Ouedraogo
Written By:

Idrissa Ouedraogo
In Theaters:

Sep 8, 1990 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Oct 24, 1995
Runtime:

81 minutes
Studio:

Les Films de l'Avenir

Cast

Rasmane Ouedraogo
as Saga

Roukietou Barry
as Kuilga

Assita Ouedraogo
as Kougri

Critic Reviews for Tilai (The Law)

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The theatrical rhetoric that the filmmaker underplays in speech bursts into his images, which are as poised and majestic as they are starkly analytical.

May 27, 2018 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
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Audience Reviews for Tilai (The Law)

Nov 23, 2012

Slightly bizarre but very compelling story from Burkina Faso. A strange set of circumstances unleashes a unique drama.

John B Super Reviewer